Says Ben,
Interesting story on performance enhancing eye surgeries in Slate — can’t wait for the Senate hearings and the pleas from parents whose kids who idolized big leaguers and bought bad eyes like these in sad, back alley LASIK mishaps.
Says Ben,
Interesting story on performance enhancing eye surgeries in Slate — can’t wait for the Senate hearings and the pleas from parents whose kids who idolized big leaguers and bought bad eyes like these in sad, back alley LASIK mishaps.
Old news? but mentioned during Saturday’s Channel 11 Mets telecast was that Carlos Beltran got a Conditioned Ocular Enhancement machine as part of his contract. Tennis balls with colored numbers on them, fired at up to 150 mph w/various spins. Read the numbers, improve your eyes, expand your zone–see pitches when they’re at your bat. Edgar Martinez is apparently so sight-tastic that he needs a special 200-mph machine.
Of course, this tech geekery is nothing compared with that of real sports…like marathoning: http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/nike_pr.html. Not that Alberto Salazar’s Oregon Project and its microvibrating platforms have produced many great runners, but I guess Dan Browne made the Olympics.
The bigger question is, does any of this help the blind (i.e., Helen Keller, Kaz Matsui)?